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FortiBleed Attackers Turn Firewalls Into Credential Stealers as Heists Persist

The threat actors engineered a Golang-based sniffer to target 430,000 FortiGate firewalls and identify 110 million credentials in the ongoing global campaign.

Source AI Summary Published June 23, 2026 Brief Under 1 min brief
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A recent cyberattack has seen threat actors exploit FortiGate firewalls to steal user credentials. The attackers have developed a Golang-based tool that targets these firewalls, allowing them to identify and extract a large number of credentials.

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